Best Books of the Year 2020 by BBC

Updated over 3 years ago
53 Books
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This list rounds up plenty of inspiring memoirs, unsettling dystopian fiction, critical race theory, and poetry that will keep you busy for months to come. These are the best books of 2020 as collected by the BBC's Lindsay Baker.

Details	Rating	Readers Count
A Children's Bible Lydia Millet	3.69	80 reads
Actress Anne Enright	3.4	7 reads
A Long Petal of the Sea Isabel Allende	4.04	68 reads
American Poison Eduardo Porter	0	0 reads
Apeirogon Colum McCann	4.41	19 reads
A Promised Land Barack Obama	4.27	315 reads
Cleanness Garth Greenwell	4.06	23 reads
Daddy: stories Emma Cline	3.09	20 reads
Dearly: New Poems Margaret Atwood	3.57	30 reads
Earthlings Sayaka Murata Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)	3.6	292 reads
Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell	4.17	269 reads
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot Mikki Kendall	4.3	109 reads
House of Glass Hadley Freeman	0	1 read
How Much of These Hills Is Gold C Pam Zhang	3.95	54 reads
I Am Not Your Baby Mother Candice Brathwaite	5	2 reads
If I Had Your Face Frances Cha	3.83	89 reads
Jack Marilynne Robinson	3.57	11 reads
Mayflies Andrew O'Hagan	3.88	30 reads
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America	4.33	50 reads
Minor Feelings Cathy Park Hong	4.1	67 reads
More Than a Woman Caitlin Moran	4.4	7 reads
Motherwell Motherwell Deborah Orr	5	1 read
Must I Go Yiyun Li	3	4 reads
Our House Is on Fire Our House Is on Fire Jeanette Winter	0	0 reads
Piranesi Susanna Clarke	4.24	1,518 reads
Poor Caleb Femi	0	0 reads
Rainbow Milk Paul Mendez	3.86	11 reads
Ready Player Two Ernest Cline	3.15	531 reads
Reality and Other Stories Reality and Other Stories John Lanchester	0	1 read
Real Life Brandon Taylor	3.91	62 reads
Redhead by the Side of the Road Anne Tyler	3.8	34 reads
Rodham Curtis Sittenfeld	3.88	44 reads
Sharks in the Time of Saviors Kawai Strong Washburn	4.06	39 reads
Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart	4.25	158 reads
Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid	3.8	407 reads
Sweet Dreams Dylan Jones	0	0 reads
That Old Country Music Kevin Barry	4	5 reads
The Best of Me David Sedaris	4.28	31 reads
The collected stories of Lorrie Moore Lorrie Moore	5	2 reads
The Death of Comrade President Alain Mabanckou Helen Stevenson (Translator)	2	1 read
The First Woman Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi	4.5	3 reads
The Glass Hotel Emily St. John Mandel	3.8	351 reads
The Mirror & the Light Hilary Mantel	4.4	49 reads
The New Wilderness Diane Cook	3.48	28 reads
The Shadow King Maaza Mengiste	3.67	13 reads
The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett	4.11	543 reads
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga	3.5	8 reads
Transcendent Kingdom Yaa Gyasi	4.13	170 reads
Weather Jenny Offill	3.5	77 reads
Where the Wild Ladies Are Aoko Matsuda Asri Pratiwi Wulandari (Translator)	3.71	25 reads
White Ivy Susie Yang	3.43	24 reads
Wow, No Thank You. Samantha Irby	3.97	72 reads
You People Nikita Lalwani	0	0 reads